Top 1200 Intellectual Dishonesty Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

That's a genre that we haven't seen much of for a while. Those action-adventure-comedy, but yet intellectual films.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.

Sociopaths are not usually physically violent. A typical sociopath never kills anybody and doesn't look like Charles Manson - they look like you and me and everybody else. You're not looking for someone who's recognizably evil or scary-looking, but rather someone who looks normal. Another lynchpin is dishonesty. Lying for the sake of lying. Lying just to see whether you can trick people. And sometimes telling larger lies to get larger effects.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.

Long-term career aspirations encompass emotional and intellectual impact of work on society.

We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth... In a world struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further development of non-violence - not only as a philosophy but as a way of life, as a force on the streets, in the market squares, outside the missile bases, inside the chemical plants and inside the war industry - becomes one of the most urgent priorities.

Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

Blumhouse Books is not an outlet for us to mine intellectual property for movies and TV.

And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.

It's not all about looks. If someone can sustain a good intellectual 'conversation, I find that very 'attractive.

I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the Financial Times.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

We must deal with Chinese theft of intellectual property, though no one is sure that tariffs are the solution.

I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.